Hoof-expanding pad.



PATENTED OCT. 29, 1907.

G. D. MUAFEE.

HOOP EXPANDING PAD. APPLICATION IILED MAY 13,1901.

I vi b1 man CHARLES .D. McAF EE, OF BURGElTSTOWN,

PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOF-EXPANDING PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May13. 1907. Serial No. 373.892.

Patented Oct. 29, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

1' brought upon the frog of the foot through the inter Be it known that I, (ht-muss D. A iel-U ns, a citizen vention of the pad.

of the United States, residing at Burgettstown, in the i 2 designates a metal bar inset in the pad at its rear county of Washington, State of Pennsylvania, have I end and secured thereto by bolt rivets 3 3 extending invented certain new and useful improvements in i through the bar and the pad, as shown. The forward Hoof-Expanding Pads; and i do hereby declare the end of the bar2is flattened and gradually thinneddown following to be a full, clear, andexact description of to an almost sharpened end -l that extends under the toe the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the of the hoof and between the latter and the upper surart to which it apportains to make and use the same. face of the shoe to hold it in place, and to this end the This invention has relation to means for expanding t hoof may be dressed somewhat to give the end i a lit the hoof of a horses foot by providing means which therein without altering the construction of the shoe will cause the weight or partial weight of the animal or interfering with its placement. to bear upon the frog of the foot when traveling or 5 designates a strap that is passed through a lateral standing so as to cause the sides of the rear of the hoof slot (5 formed in the pad 1 below the bar 2, one end of to spread outwardly. the said strap being provided with a buckle (i, and the It is the object of my invention to provide improveother end being formed as a tongue to engage the merits in the means specified whereby-they will be renbuckle, whereby the said strap can be carried over the dercd more efficient and at the same time be simplified upper front part of the hoof and buckled, as at 7, to in construction and accordingly reduced in cost of hold the pad vertically in place. manufacture. By the simple means specified a hoof-expanding pad Th natur 1 the invention is l'nlly and cl arly ascan be applied to thehoof of a horse without modifying certain-able from the device portrayed in the annexed the construction of the shoe, and, indeed, without redrawings, forming a part of this specification, in view moving the shoe, and adjusted and held in place to of which it will tirst be described with respect to its answer peculiar requirements. if need be the pad can construction and mode of operation, and th n b easily and quickly be removed for a time and again pointed out in the subjoined claims. replaced with very little trouble and in a very little Of the said drawings lfiigure 1 is a perspective view m f h invention d h d Fi 2 i L tm i It is obvious that the operation of the device will be of a shoe and hoof of a horse showing my improvement such asto expand the hoof, and assuredly obviate conli t Fi 31 a id l ti f th i ti traction of the hoof and all of its attendant disadvanli d tag-es due to shoeing.

Similar characters of reference designate similar Wh t i l i d i parts 01 features, its the CKISO y \VhCl'QVQI' y A hoot-expanding pad, comprising a pad proper com- Occul; posed of a firm elastic substance, as described, having a In the drawings 1 designates a p that my be Coup t'orni in outline corresponding lo the general outline of the r V I lrog of the foot and oi a thickness sufhcient to bear on posed of lela'tlvely son. rubberfithut 15 rubber that IS the frog and extend below the plane of the lower surface Vulcanized to an extent to render it but not to ll of the shoe. the said pad having a bar connected therewith degree to deprive it of its elastic properties. Any at its rear end. the forward end being flattened and thinned other Substance having substantially the same Propel; down to adapt it to extend over the shoe :1 t the toe ti s a ru under the Same conditions will mlswcras point. and a strap connected with the pad and adapted to be extended up over the lorward upper surface 01 the well. The shape of the pad is such as to conform genmm tightly huvkhid worm erally to the outline of the frog of the hoof-approaching the form of a triangle, and its thickness will be such that when put in position on the frog of a shod hoot, the lower surface will extend on a plane below the plane of the lower surface ofthe shoe, so that the material weight of the horse in walking or standing will be in testimony whereof. I of two witnesses.

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